On 6 October 2017, Smith announced his second album titled “The Thrill of it All” through his online Twitter account was to be released on 3 November 2017.

It is Smith’s second full album of material after his hugely successful debut album In the Lonely Hour in 2014, which has sold 12 million copies worldwide, and has received a number of sales certifications in lots of different countries.

I went through, like, this vortex, came out, I feel like I’ve rebuilt myself as a stronger thing and I’m just gonna go into the vortex again,“ he says in a preview that features a montage of studio sessions. "I wasn’t trying to make a big pop record when I made this album. I was actually just trying to make something personal and like a diary.”

“The Thrill of It All” Q&A

What can we expect from the new album?

In an interview with Zane Lowe, Smith said the following.

People are gonna see, this one as I’ve said is about me and something that I’ve gone through… What I’ve been through relationship wise the last year has made me a lot stronger and I feel like I’ve learned some lessons from it. This album actually is not all about me, There’s about four songs that are about me and the rest are about different things and different people in my life and what they’ve gone through. Different in my opinions on different things. I wanted to welcome people back in and I want it to be about my voice and about the storytelling of something that I’ve gone through.

How well did the album do in it's first week of sales?

Sam Smith scores his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as The Thrill of It All debuts atop the list. The set earned 237,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 9, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 185,000 were in traditional album sales. The album is Smith’s second full-length studio effort, and was released on Nov. 3 through Capitol Records. It follows his debut studio set, In the Lonely Hour, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the July 5, 2014-dated chart"